Cancer Therapies

Two Cancer-Fighting Proteins Identified

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 16th, 1999

Researchers said they had found two cancer-fighting proteins they think will prove especially powerful in starving cancerous tumors.

The proteins will join an arsenal of drugs being developed to fight cancer in a different way - by choking off the blood supply that cancers create to feed themselves.

Human Genome Sciences Inc., Rockville, Maryland, which specializes in searching the collection of human genes for useful new proteins, has named its discoveries METH-1 and METH-2.

It said they work better than a highly publicized protein, called endostatin, developed by another Maryland company, Entremed. In July 1999 Entremed...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1999-08-16)

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